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Finding the right tool to support learning is the key to student success. When appropriate strategies are combined with engaging texts, student interest and learning increase.

In Tools for Teaching Content Literacy Janet Allen put a wealth of research-based instructional tools at teachers' fingertips to help students make connections with informational resources and to read critically. More Tools for Teaching Content Literacy extends this treasure trove with 25 new instructional strategies -- from Expert Groups to Point-of-View Guides, to Wordstorming -- using the same compact, tabbed flipchart format. Each of the strategies includes: a brief description of the instructional tool; an exploration of how and why the tool would be used for instruction in content classes; graphic organizers; models; step-by-step instructions to support using and adapting the instructional strategy; a research base that documents the origin, adaptations, and related reading for understanding the effectiveness of the strategy.

Like its predecessor, More Tools is a handy reference that provides instant access to succinct descriptions, practical strategies, and manageable assessments, allowing teachers to save time and be more flexible and confident in meeting students' needs.

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More Tools for Teaching Content Literacy

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Amazon.com: More Tools for Teaching Content Literacy: 9781571107718: Allen, Janet: Books

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Janet Allen developed the ideal support for teachers who want to improve their reading instruction across the curriculum. Tools for Teaching Content Literacy is a compact tabbed flipchart designed as a ready reference for content reading and writing instruction.

Each of the thirty-three strategies includes: a brief description and purpose for each strategy;a research base that documents the origin and effectiveness of the strategy; graphic organizers to support the lesson;classroom vignettes from different grade levels and content areas to illustrate the strategy in use.

The perfect size to slip into a plan book, Tools highlights effective instructional strategies and innovative ideas to help you design lessons that meet your students' academic needs as well as content standards. The definitions, descriptions, and research sources also provide a quick reference when implementing state and national standards, designing assessments, writing grants, or evaluating resources for literacy instruction.

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Princess Gabriel The Bookish Bookaholic of the Western Timbers of Librarianland (aka Gabriel the Bookaholic)

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Where I'm From: Where Poems Come From by George Ella Lyon

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Reading Strategies and Practices: A Compendium

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Reading Strategies and Practices: A Compendium (6th Edition)

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Strategies for Close Reading

Notice and Note by Kylene Beers and Bob Probst introduces 6 "signposts" to help students read closely, encouraging them to explore the text and find evidence to support their interpretations.

The book provides text-dependent anchor questions and model lessons to help teachers introduce each signpost. It's a practical guide to help create attentive readers who interpret text responsibly and reflect on its meaning in their lives.

"Just as rigor does not reside in the barbell but in the act of lifting it, rigor in reading is not an attribute of a text but rather of a reader's behavior-engaged, observant, responsive, questioning, analytical. The close reading strategies in Notice and Note will help you cultivate those critical reading habits that will make your students more attentive, thoughtful, independent readers."

-Kylene Beers and Robert E. Probst

Also available: Notice & Note/Reading Nonfiction Signpost Student Bookmarks
Notice and Note Book Club Facebook Page
In Notice and Note Kylene Beers and Bob Probst introduce 6 "signposts" that alert readers to significant moments in a work of literature and encourage students to read closely. Learning first to spot these signposts and then to question them, enables readers to explore the text, any text, finding evidence to support their interpretations. In short, these close reading strategies will help your students to notice and note.

In this timely and practical guide Kylene and Bob:

examine the new emphasis on text-dependent questions, rigor, text complexity, and what it means to be literate in the 21st century

identify 6 signposts that help readers understand and respond to character development, conflict, point of view, and theme

provide 6 text-dependent anchor questions that help readers take note and read more closely

offer 6 Notice and Note model lessons, including text selections and teaching tools, that help you introduce each signpost to your students.

Notice and Note will help create attentive readers who look closely at a text, interpret it responsibly, and reflect on what it means in their lives. It should help them become the responsive, rigorous, independent readers we not only want students to be but know our democracy demands.

A newNotice and Note Literature Log offers students practice finding the signposts-with over-the-shoulder coaching from Kylene and Bob. Save with 5-packs.

(click any section below to continue reading)

Contents

Part I, The Questions We Pondered, shares our thinking about some critical topics of today. Because our thinking about these topics mostly took the form of questions we asked of one another, we decided to present this section as a series of questions and our answers. Our answers, tentative as they are, may help you understand the thinking that guided our development of the Notice and Note Signposts. Also in Part I you'll see sections labeled "What you might wonder about." These are additional questions we thought you and others in your own learning community might want to discuss. See these questions as starting points for rich conversations about literacy education in your own classroom and your own school.
Part II, The Signposts We Found, explains the Notice and Note Signposts, the role of generalizable language, and the anchor question that accompanies each signpost.
Part III, The Lessons We Teach, provides model lessons for teaching the Signposts. This is our language and we don't expect it to work for you or your students until you've put it in your own words, but it will give you a start, a place to begin.
We hope that Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading will help students come to enjoy the pleasures of reading attentively and responsively. They will need you to put the right books in their hands, books in which they can get lost and books in which they can find themselves. And they'll need you, and other teachers like you, to invite them into the conversations that will transform them into the close and thoughtful readers whose entire lives will be enriched by books.

Part I: The Questions We Pondered
1. Is reading still reading?
2. And what is the role of fiction?
3. Where does rigor fit in with this discussion of reading?
4. What do we mean by intellectual communities?
5. What is the role of talk in creating intellectual communities?
6. Do text-dependent questions foster engagement?
7. What is "Close Reading?"
8. To talk about novels do we all need to be reading the same book?
9. As I'm choosing novels, don't the CCSS say novels must be harder, be more complex?
10. And one final question: Are we creating lifetime learners?

Part II: The Signposts We Found
1. The Notice and Note Signposts
2. Defining the Notice and Note Signposts
3. The Anchor Question for each Signpost
4. The Role of Generalizable Language in Teaching these Lessons
5. The Generalizable Language We Use for Each Signpost
6. Explaining the Signposts to Students
7. Assessment and the Notice and Note Signposts
8. Some Questions You Might Have

Part III The Lessons We Teach
1. Contrasts and Contradictions
2. The Aha Moment
3. Tough Questions
4. Words of the Wiser
5. Again and Again
6. Memory Moment

1.Student Survey on Discussions2. Rigor and Talk Checklist
3. Huswifery
4. Text complexity worksheet
5. Notice and Note Bookmark
6. Texts for teaching the Notice and Note Lessons

Companion Resources

Reviews

"Exceptionally well written, organized, and presented...very highly recommended."
-Susan Bethany, Midwest Book Review

Reviews from educators like you...

"This is the missing link. While the Common Core State Standards require students to read complex texts, read closely, and answer text-dependent questions, nothing shows us how to help students do all that during independent reading-nothing until Notice and Note came along. Kylene and Bob show us how we can attend to the demands of the CCSS and support engaged, attentive, independent readers."
-Darl Kiernan, PhD., literacy trainer, Northwest Regional Professional Development, NV

"As Bob and Kylene taught their Notice & Note lessons I watched our students become engaged and excited about reading. Students scoured the text to find support for their thinking, and struggling readers succeeded with texts that would have otherwise been discarded as too hard. Don't buy just one of these books-buy one for every teacher in your building!"
-Margaret Ruppert, literacy specialist, Akron Public Schools, Akron, OH

"Bob and Kylene shared these lessons in my class of eighth graders. When my students began to notice the signposts and ask the accompanying anchor questions, navigating a text became possible even for my struggling readers, and the text became something they not only deeply understood but also enjoyed."
-Jennifer Ochoa, middle school teacher, MS 324, New York City, NY

" Notice & Note will help you foster rigorous reading and high-level thinking while honoring your students' need to interact with what they read. Kylene and Bob forge connections between new academic standards and decades of reading research through commonsense strategies that encourage collaboration and engaged reading. This book is well worth noticing and noting."
-Donalyn Miller, author of The Book Whisperer and a grade 4 teacher, Ft. Worth, TX

"As Kylene and Bob taught their Notice & Note lessons at Chicago Shakespeare, I watched a room of teachers get curious, slightly anxious, and then completely enthusiastic about these new avenues for approaching literacy in their urban classrooms. Kylene and Bob understand research and real classrooms, which is why their work continues to be essential."
-Marilyn Halperin, Director of Education, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, IL

"Teaching students to respond to complex texts is a critical aspect of implementing the Common Core State Standards. When I use Notice & Note lessons in my professional development sessions, teachers invariably go deeper into long familiar texts. These strategies awaken our critical eye and direct us to explore text elements that we might otherwise ignore. Notice and Note strategies will improve how your students analyze and respond to any text."
-Patsy Dunton, ELA Specialist, Maine DOE

"As much as I love Beers and Probst's concept of signposts and anchor questions, I think my favorite part of Notice & Note is their section on "Letting Students Create Text-Dependent Questions." With a few simple steps, they demonstrate how to teach students to ask questions about texts to drive comprehension and learning. I love this approach because it makes texts accessible to everyone-after all, we can all think of questions as we read-but more importantly, it signals the importance of INQUIRY in learning and ENCOURAGES students to ask questions while reading, which is, in fact, what good readers do. This book makes a vital contribution to the ongoing discussion about how to help students become stronger readers."
-Sarah Tantillo, author of The Literacy Cookbook

Read the entire review at Only Good Books

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